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PRIVATE AND LOCAL LAWS.

CHAPTER 1.

[Published January 24, 1868.]

AN ACT legalizing the order of supervisors of the towns of Manchester and Dayton, erecting joint school district number 8, of said towns

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The order of the board of supervisors Order of supervisors legalized of the towns of Manchester and Dayton, in the county of Green Lake erecting joint school district number eight (8) of said towns, made on the first day of February, A. D. 1867, and all acts of said district in the election of officers and the levying and collection of taxes, are hereby legalized.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved January 22, 1868.

CHAPTER 2.

[Published March 17, 1868.]

AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the city of Watertown in the county of Jefferson.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follow:

SECTION 1. The time for the collection of taxes in Time extended. the city of Watertown in the county of Jefferson is here.

Treasurer shall have same pow

by extended until the twentieth day of March, 1868: provided, that this act be so construed as not to extend the time for the payment of state taxes.

SECTION 2. The treasurer of said city shall have er after as be- the same power and authority to collect the taxes confore extension. tained in said city tax roll after as before such extension of time for the collection of said taxes, and the return of the city treasurer to the county treasurer, within the time limited for the collection of taxes by this act, shall be as vaild as if made pursuant to the direction of the original warrant.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 22, 1868.

CHAPTER 3.

[Published March 17, 1868.]

Legalized.

AN ACT to legalize the official acts of the district clerk of school district number 2, of the town of Clinton, in the county of Rock.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. All acts of the district clerk of school district No. 2. of the town of Clinton, in the county of Rock, in relation to his statement to the town clerk of said town, of the amount of taxes to be assessed to said district for the year A. D. 1867, and the acts of said town clerk in assessing the same to said district, and all district school tax voted by and assessed to said district in the year A. D. 1867, are hereby declared to be legal and vaild.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 22, 1868.

CHAPTER 4.

[Published March 18, 1868.]

AN ACT to provide for drawing jurors in the county of Winnebago.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1. The clerk of the circuit court of the May draw jurcounty of Winnebago is hereby authorized and it shall be his duty to draw the names of grand and petit jurors to serve at the several terms of the circuit court in said county for the year 1868, from the lists prepar ed by the board of supervisors of said county for said year, and certified to said clerk; and no informality or irregularity in the manner of preparing said lists shall disquality the jurors so drawn, but they shall be legal and competent jurors to serve as such at the terms of said court for which they are so drawn, as fully as if all the requirements of chapter 112 of the laws of 1866 had been complied with in preparing said lists.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 22, 1868.

CHAPTER 5,

[Published March 18, 1868.]

AN ACT to amend sections two and five of chapter 182 of the private and local laws of 1867, entitled "an act to amend an act entitled 'an act to enable the town of Jefferson to settle with its creditors," and an act amendatory thereto, being chapters 226 and 492 of the local laws of 1866.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 2. of chapter 182 of the private section two and local laws of 1867 is hereby amended so as to read amended. as follows: Section 2. The town of Jefferson in the

Section five amended.

county of Jefferson is hereby authorized to issue new bends in exchange for bonds heretofore issued by said town to aid in the construction of the Wisconsin central railroad and the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac railroad, now outstanding and unpaid, and also for the interest thereon, and all other indebtedness of said town growing out of said bonds and coupons attached thereto, and all judgments obtained thereon, and also to issue and sell new bonds to raise money to pay the same, or the sums agreed to be paid thereon upon such terms as may be agreed upon between said town and its creditors, whose claims grew out of the issue of said bonds and coupons in the manner in this act provided; which new bonds may be made payable at such place and at such time, not exceeding twenty years from their date as may be agreed upon with said creditors severally; and they shall be payable to bearer and be transferable by delivery with coupons attached for interest, payable annually at a rate not exceeding ten per cent. per annum.

SECTION 2. Section five of chapter 182 of the private and local laws of 1867 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 5. And it shall be the duty of the chairman of the board of supervisors and town clerk of said town to execute and deliver to the said commissioners for that purpose such new bonds according to the amount agreed upon between such commissioners and creditors from time to time, which bonds shall be for the sum of not less than fifty dollars each, and shall be signed by said chairman and clerk, and said commissioners or a majority thereof shall endorse thereon a certificate that such bonds, severally were issued according to the provisions of this act, and such certificate shall be conclusive evidence that the same have been duly issued under the provisions of this act, and that said town is irrevocably and firmly bound to pay the same. Said bonds shall be in such form and payable principal and interest at such time and place as shall be agreed upon between said commissioners and creditors, severally, but the interest thereon shall not exceed ten per cent. per annum; and said chairman and clerk may also issue like bonds and of like validity and effect, and deliver the same to said commissioners, who may endorse the same as aforesaid, and then sell the same for money at not less than par,

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